Loose Leaf Notes

My choice for Best in Show, titled and created by Laura Byler for the Make Me Laugh show currently up at The Jacksonville Center for the Arts.

1. If pictures are picture perfect, then poetry is the warts and all truth. 2. “Dance is poetry of the foot,” said John Dryden.  It’s proven HERE. 3. Read a fascinating account of how New York author Dorothy Parker’s ashes came to rest at the NAACP in Baltimore HERE. 4. Parker’s self-composed epitaph: “Excuse my […]

  On the plane ride home from Boston to Roanoke I pondered my brother’s dead body flying as cargo from Houston to Logan in 2001   Folding my magazine to a page on green burial I read that death is a spiritual birth that embalmment means draining the body of blood and filling it with […]

Dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.  ~Mata Hari Post note: Look for photos and a write-up on the One-Stoplight Variety Show coming soon.

Shadow Shot Sunday photo#1. Straight out of the Camera Watch The Hired Help Video HERE.

1. Let your faith be bigger than your fear. ~ The quote my sister posted on Facebook after receiving a serious health diagnosis. 2. The quote my niece Rosie has on her checks: I’d rather be toasting marshmallows. 3. Both my sons would have been named Rosie Ellen if they had been girls. Years later […]

Meeting Sophia (my sister Sherry’s grandchild). Getting a firedog bobble-head named after me by my great nephew Joshua. Taking my mom on a drive to the cemetery and listening to a Frank Sinatra CD while she sang along. Evening walks on the beach. Sunday dinner at my mother’s house. My brother Joey  is a good […]

This is how close the beach town peninsula I grew up on is to Boston. Twenty-something miles south of the city but only a stone’s throw by boat. Although Hull is best known for Nantasket Beach, we grew up on Stony Beach (pictured) at the entrance to Hull Village, which is at furthest end of […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

A 95 pound bank vice-president by weekday, she needed some help reeling this one in. I think it was her first catch, and surely her first 30 inch striped bass. When I asked her what she said when she caught it, she answered, “Wow, that thing is big!” I’m glad it didn’t pull her in! […]

That’s what my brother-in-law Nelson told me before he snapped this picture of me with Chief Massasoit in Plymouth. Of course I made him google it to prove it. For a brief time I lived in Plymouth within walking distance from the rock, but that was more than 30 years ago and I hadn’t been […]